We invite you to the concluding event of our 75th Anniversary Celebration: a poetry reading featuring Rosa Alcalá, Brian Blanchfield, and Jessi Gaston. The reading will take place on Thursday, October 27, at 5:00pm in Room 801 of the Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago. The event is free and open to the public.
Rosa Alcalá is the author of four books of poetry, including YOU, forthcoming from Coffee House Press. She has given talks, readings, and workshops internationally, most recently in Tbilisi, Georgia. Currently, she is Professor and Chair of the Department of Creative Writing and Bilingual MFA Program at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her work appears in Chicago Review 59:3, 61:3/4, and the 75th Anniversary Anthology.
Brian Blanchfield is the author of three books of poetry and prose, most recently Proxies: Essays Near Knowing (Nightboat, Picador UK). Recipient of a Whiting Award for his nonfiction and the James Laughlin Award for his poetry, he lives in Missoula, where he teaches creative writing at the University of Montana. He wrote the Afterword for Chicago Review’s 75th Anniversary Anthology.
Jessi Gaston is a writer with previous work in several places—most recently four poems about the Marx Brothers in drDOCTOR. They are based in Chicago. Their work appears in Chicago Review 66:1.
We would like to thank the University of Chicago English Department, the Creative Writing Department, the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies Section of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities, the Poetics Workshop, and the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture for sponsoring this event.